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Monday, March 28, 2016

5 Ways Ordinary People Are Challenging the Saudi Government

When Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud became Saudi Arabia’s king in January 2015, there were
calls for him to implement economic and social reforms in the kingdom —
long considered a key ally of the United States in the Middle East —
and improve its human rights record.
More than one year later, those calls continue.
Faced with a resurgent Iran, economic distress from falling oil
prices, pressure from religious conservatives, and wars in Yemen and
Syria, King Salman’s government has made some reforms — but it
also ordered Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution in nearly three
decades.
Now, some ordinary people inside the country are fighting back.
As FRONTLINE’s March 29 documentary, Saudi Arabia Uncovered,
reveals firsthand, a new generation of men and women inside the country
are risking everything to challenge the status quo and try to bring
about change. Here’s how.

They’re secretly filming parts of Saudi Arabia the government doesn’t want you to see.

Members of the Saudi royal family are among the wealthiest people in
the world, and the Saudi Arabia the world often sees is a country of
wealth and luxury shopping malls. The government has spent billions on
social welfare, yet it’s estimated that up to a quarter of Saudi
Arabia’s population still lives in poverty. Even though filming in the
slums could land them in prison, a network of activists is documenting
what life is like there. This undercover footage obtained by FRONTLINE
was taken in a slum on the outskirts of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.

Women are driving.

King Salman has enacted changes enabling women to vote and stand in
local elections. Yet under a strict, state-sponsored interpretation of
Islamic tradition, women are still banned from taking the wheel. In late
2014, a woman named Loujain Hathloul took matters into her own hands
— filming herself trying to drive into Saudi Arabia from the neighboring
United Arab Emirates. Moments after her filming ended, Hathloul was
arrested. As Saudi Arabia Uncovered recounts, she’s gone on to become one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists.

They’re fighting back against public violence.

One particularly disturbing scene from Saudi Arabia Uncovered
shows a woman who had been convicted of killing and sexually assaulting
her stepdaughter being publicly beheaded on a city street, while
screaming, “I didn’t do it.” Others show women being knocked to the
ground by men in public places. Activists are secretly filming public
violence like this, and sometimes, the footage shows how ordinary Saudis
are reacting — including some women fighting back. In the below scene,
after being whipped in public, several women turn on their attackers.

They’re blogging.

In 2012, a secular activist named Raif Badawi took to his website to
publicly criticize the close relationship between Saudi Arabia’s rulers
and the country’s conservative clerics, who are supported by much of the
population. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for
insulting Islam. He has spent much of his sentence in one of Saudi
Arabia’s most notorious prisons. As Saudi Arabia Uncovered reports, his family — now living in exile — hasn’t stopped fighting for his freedom.

They’re protesting.

It was a bloody way to ring in the new year: In January of 2016, the
Saudi government oversaw the mass execution of 47 people on terror
charges. It was the nation’s largest mass execution in nearly 30
years. Many of those executed were convicted Al Qaeda terrorists, but
one of them was the controversial Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
— widely seen as the spiritual leader of Saudi Arabia’s 2011 Shia
uprising. Footage from Saudi Arabia Uncovered shows how the Sheikh’s execution sparked the first major protests in the East of Saudi Arabia since the Arab Spring.To learn more about Saudi Arabia today, and to the meet citizens
there who are challenging the government, watch FRONTLINE’s Saudi Arabia
Uncovered on Tues., March 29 starting at 10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. CST on PBS
stations (check your local listings) and online at pbs.org/frontline.

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